plaignaient
\plɛ.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“plaignaient” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,975. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,975
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de plaindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaignaient · plaignaient · French
plaignaient · rank #38,975 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,975
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH phytosanitair…
Nearest frequency peer: phytosanitaires (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaignaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perforation
perforation
61,028 corpus weight
- phytosanita…
phytosanitaires
61,027 corpus weight
- plaignaient
plaignaient
61,026 corpus weight
- plasticité
plasticité
61,025 corpus weight
- Plymouth
Plymouth
61,024 corpus weight
- pointilleux
pointilleux
61,023 corpus weight
What this shows « plaignaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaignaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɛ.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #38,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaignaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around plaignaient (IPA \plɛ.ɲɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,975 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de plaindre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaignaient, with forms such as "lpaignaient", "palignaient", and "plaginaient". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "plaignent", "plaignant", "plaignait", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is plaignaient, spelled P-L-A-I-G-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de plaindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaignaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a voulu monter plus haut que l’échelle, disait-on à ceux qui plaignaient l’ex-garde-chasse, le chanoine rubicond à qui sa femme faisait son café au lait le matin, comme on l’a vu dans le récit des événements antérieurs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaignaient
- palignaient
- plaginaient
- plaiganient
- plaiggnaient
- plaignaeint
- plaignaiennt
- plaignaientt
- plaignaietn
- plaignainet
- plaigniaent
- plaignnaient
- plaingaient
- pliagnaient
- pllaignaient
- pplaignaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaignaient - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).